Alliance members find themselves in the middle of rows at Stormont and the debate about a border poll.
There are calls for an investigation after the portrait of a former DUP Lord Mayor was damaged in Belfast City Hall.
The Green Party manifesto includes a wealth tax on the richest one per cent of people.
Representatives of three of NI's smaller parties have been giving their reaction to the leaders’ debate.
Former Belfast City councillor Mal O'Hara is elected as a senator during a ceremony in Leinster House.
Mal O'Hara is likely to be successfully elected to the Seanad after he was nominated unopposed.
The former assembly member says she's stepping down "with a heavy heart" to take up a new role.
Ahead of next week's council polls, Mal O'Hara says the party has a new energy and more activists.
The upcoming polls are the biggest test of political opinion in England outside a general election.
